Task Description
Two weeks ago I was on the 8th grade Washington DC trip with my school. Inspired by my experience there, I thought we could work together to build up a little collaborative mulitimedia timeline that deals with the history of the many of the monuments, memorials, and historic sites in and around the greater Washington DC area. Here is what we'll attempt to do:
Each timeline entry will have the following components
A brief description that mentions the history of the monument, the date that it was completed, the artist/designer/architect, and the impact. Keep this to 3-5 sentences maximum.
Your timeline entry should have a photo (from the Creative Commons if this is possible). I recommend doing an advanced search at flickr and checking all of the Creative Commons options. For the sake of time, go ahead and find your images using google image searches if you'd like. Content licensed in the Creative Commons is something you could take a look at for future projects.
Include a related web link and enter the location in the appropriate locations when adding the event.
If time permits, embed a related YouTube video.
Sign your entry with the following, "Contributed by: .... "
Evaluation - Please take a few minutes to complete the online evaluation form for this professional development experience. Your feedback certainly is appreciated and will be helpful in guiding future experiences!
Use any web resources that you'd like to develop your text description for the timeline entries.
DC area monuments, memorials, and historic sites for our collaborative timeline:
US Air Force Memorial
Washington Monument Nancy
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Korean War Veterans Memorial
Jefferson Memorial-Dobbie
National Archives Cathy
World War II Memorial-Pete
Whitehouse Rachel
US Capitol
Ford's Theater-Charles
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Joanie
Marine Corps Memorial
Fredericksburg Battlefield - Montagne
Manassas/Bull Run Battlefield
Antietam Battlefield
Washington's Mount Vernon
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello-Mark
Arlington National Cemetary
National Museum of the Marine Corps
Smithsonian Castle Andy
Confederate Statue "Appomattox" in Alexandria
Lincoln Memorial - Montagne
Click here to view the timeline and to begin adding content to it. Sign in with menlofacultyat the user name and menloas the password.
Collaborative Planning Brainstorm Chat!
While this is going on, you are going to enter a chat room to brainstorm some possibilities for using a lesson like this with your students. Click here to enter the chat. You'll need to enter your name and the password, menlo, in order to join the room. Click "Join Chat" at the bottom of the window to begin texting ideas about lesson possibilities. When we are completed with this activity, we'll post the chat dialogue on this page so we have a listing of potential classroom ideas. A few questions to guide the chat:
What are some possible variations of this activity that you could use with your students?
If you used a variation of this lesson with your classes, what would be some follow-up activities?
How do you think your students would respond to this?
Evaluation:
Please take a moment to fill out the online evaluation form for this experience. Your suggestions and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to participate today!
Resources from today's experience:
All of the tools and resources from today's experience are free and accessible with an internet connection.
Dipity-Interactive digital timeline tool. Mnemograph and Xtimeline is another web based interactive digital timeline tool to consider.
Flickr images - images from flickr in the Creative Commons.
Wikispaces - This is the tool that I used to assemble and arrange the materials for this professional development activity. Wikispaces offers ad-free wikis for educators. What is a wiki? Find out more here.
Creative Commons - CC is a wonderful content licensing mechanism that allows property owners to give explicit permission for thieir works to be re-used and or remixed for a variety of non-commercial and commercial purposes. In addition to a images in the Creative Commons on the web, sites like Jamendo and CCMixteroffer CC licensed audio.
Two weeks ago I was on the 8th grade Washington DC trip with my school. Inspired by my experience there, I thought we could work together to build up a little collaborative mulitimedia timeline that deals with the history of the many of the monuments, memorials, and historic sites in and around the greater Washington DC area. Here is what we'll attempt to do:
Each timeline entry will have the following components
Use any web resources that you'd like to develop your text description for the timeline entries.
DC area monuments, memorials, and historic sites for our collaborative timeline:
Click here to view the timeline and to begin adding content to it. Sign in with menlofaculty at the user name and menlo as the password.
Collaborative Planning Brainstorm Chat!
While this is going on, you are going to enter a chat room to brainstorm some possibilities for using a lesson like this with your students. Click here to enter the chat. You'll need to enter your name and the password, menlo, in order to join the room. Click "Join Chat" at the bottom of the window to begin texting ideas about lesson possibilities. When we are completed with this activity, we'll post the chat dialogue on this page so we have a listing of potential classroom ideas.
A few questions to guide the chat:
Interactive Timeline Sample Projects:
Evaluation:
Please take a moment to fill out the online evaluation form for this experience. Your suggestions and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to participate today!
Resources from today's experience:
All of the tools and resources from today's experience are free and accessible with an internet connection.
Matt's Contact Information:
Civil Rights Movement Collaborative Timeline
This sample was created by 16 eighth grade students in a 40 minute class periodMatt Montagne's Personal/Professional Timeline
This sample includes feeds from many of the tools that I use for professional development and in my personal learning network.